Win 7 Desktop does not auto-refresh

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Saw another thread on this, but no solution. Two different laptops, both clean installs. Intermittently, when I delete or move files on the desktop, the icon remains. I have to manually refresh to clear the deleted/moved files.

Any ideas?

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Yup, Deckard solved the problem. Here is his post from the other thread for quick reference. His solution worked for me:

"I've read this thread to the end and I've tried all the solutions posted... obviously to no avail.

The bug repeats itself, not randomly but constantly, in any situation, folders, libraries - sorted by name or by whatever.

I then tried something different, which instead WORKED , and here it is.

I backed up the registry.
Searched for occurrences of the word refresh and found this key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance

which contains three subkeys. One of them, curiously enough, is DontRefresh and it has a value of 1 (turned ON)

I then changed the value to 0 (turned OFF) and hit F5 to refresh and save the now changed registry.

Guess what? Now, everything (moving, deleting, copying) works and even the Trash Bin refreshes immediately.

I will keep you posted in the next few days to tell you whether the fix still works.

Good luck.

PS: I forgot to say that I have 3 machines and they respectively run Win7 Ult, Win7 Pro and Win7 Home Premium. Of course all of them showed this bug.

8 days and several reboots since the fix and everything is still working fine on all three machines."

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Hello tspencer103,

Thank you for posting.

Third party software might be responsible for this behavior. I would suggest you clean boot Windows to find out the culprit. A clean boot helps to eliminate software conflict. Follow the steps in this KB article to perform this task

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135

Please post back your findings.

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2011-11-27T04:03:07+00:00

I searched for "DontRefresh" and I too had one key with value set to 1. I changed it to 0 and seems like working.

Location of the key:

Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Wow6432Node\CLSID{BDEADE7F-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F}\Instance

Thank you for your fix.
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Anonymous

2011-11-19T16:41:29+00:00

Same here using windows 7 home premium 64 bit, I erased the dontrefresh key from regedit but i did not wok, I opened the folder organise from a folder, click foder and search option, view, declick the hide protected files operating system.

Now it works...
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Anonymous

2011-11-11T21:12:26+00:00

I have/had the same problem, but my solution was different. I don't have the DontRefresh subkey in my registry at all. Never did. I used a registry crawler to search the whole registry but it isn't there.

What worked for me was a post from another forum somwhere (sorry I forget where), which said they found two desktop.ini files on the desktop when the folder view settings were changed to show hidden files & folders, and show protected operating system files. I had a look on mine, and yep there were two. I deleted them (after zipping them & backing up off disk). Haven't had the problem since, for at least a few days, even with repeated reboots.
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